While she moved about, she told how she had gathered the wood, how she had managed to live and not be beholden to the union, and by the time they were seated at the table she was telling him about her meeting with Mary the night before.

Further, having affirmed that he would be beholden to none of them, he got the contract to carry the United States mail, twice a week, from Kelterville up over Tarwater Mountain to Old Almaden--which was a sporadically worked quick-silver mine in the upland cattle country.

What is the difference between a pharmaceutical company sponsoring attendance at an overseas course (regarded as a perverse incentive) and Discovery funding the training of specialists (of course they know that these doctors will be beholden to Discovery--it must surely influence one's medical judgement).

Dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons, combined with life peers drawn from round the country, need not be beholden to any political party for their present election and future prospects of government office, chauffeur-driven cars, rich pensions and, ultimately, wealthy directorships when they retire.

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